April's Shower
Regent Releasing | Release Date: January 13, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
3
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75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The phrase "lesbian comedy" is not exactly an oxymoron, but April's Shower is still a rarity, an expansive, talky and often zany romantic farce, with lesbian characters at its center. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Yet despite the absurdities and predictable outcome, April's Shower is enjoyable, primarily for its refreshingly volatile approach to sexual orientation. Read full review
40
VarietyRobert Koehler
The joys of farce are fumbled in April's Shower, star-director-writer Trish Doolan's arch and undernourished comedy about a bridal shower turned on its head by the bride's lesbian past. Read full review
40
Village VoiceBen Kenigsberg
Tepid lesbian comedy. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyMark Olsen
And whenever the film shifts from spunky "let's put on a show" fun to overly earnest drama, it slows to a crawl, with mawkish performances that fail to rise above the soggy material. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The result feels as if she (Trish Doolan) gathered all her friends, turned on her camera and let them loose. Which is perfectly fine, if you don't expect anyone to pay to watch the finished product. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
The movie suffers from a malady common to tiny indies of the let's-put-on-a-show variety -- it strains for irrepressibly nutty, but lands squarely in annoying. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Painfully sincere. But it wrings almost no laughs or tears from this seemingly idiot-proof premise. Read full review
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